Grand Rapids Home for veterans: Preventing Wives from seeing their Husbands.

I told you before on this blog, the Veterans Home is using the guardian laws to stop wives from seeing their husbands. I have 2 reports for you today.

2 days ago I was at the home for the weekly Guitars for Veterans (registered charity) class, and I talked to one of the older guys sitting at the Pavlovian.  Ive known him for over 3 years now. He is a quiet man, that bothers no one, and just sits out there reading his books and magazines.

He told me he just found out his wife had been going to court every other month, and that he now had to appear in court. Because he was refusing to take drugs that he did not need. His daughter is a OR RN and she tells him what the drugs do.

He is currently his own guardian. And that because he has had difference of opinions with staff members, and chooses his own healthcare, that the home is claiming he is not cooperating. Therefor want to drug him up so that he can no longer think for himself. He told them that he didn't want to end up being a zombie, like Richard and some of the others were..

So now the home is trying to get a court to declare him incompetent so that they can become his guardian.

In other words, they are saying - if you don't do what we say, we will use the courts and enslave you.
Because that's what happens when the courts assign a guardian to you, and take away your freedom and your rights.

And this happens More and more often at the so called HOME for veterans.

The second story, is one of similar circumstances.  A Veteran and his wife of 59 years, is about to celebrate 60 years of marriage and the home has forbidden her from taking him out to dinner. Or for her to come to the home and have a little dinner party for him. All under the guardian laws.

This lady has written a letter pleading for help, and when I get permission to publish it, I will.

 The home is gearing up for another round of asking the courts to declare veterans to be incompetent, and then they get a guarding assigned, and after that, they systematically take the veterans assets while they destroy his family.

This MUST END.

A congressman from Michigan came thru the home last year and said he was amazed no one had gone postal yet..  it is just a matter of time.. and when it happens, the staff is going to run in fear, for they have earned it.

Jimm Dunn lies to the People of Michigan about the state of health care at the Veterans Home.

WOOD TV, in its continual coverage of the problem of the State of Michigan's Veterans home in Grand Rapids health care giver debacle, looks at getting answers about the complaints about the level of care giving at the Veterans Home.
 http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/grand_rapids/state-responds-to-grand-rapids-home-for-veterans-care-complaints

In the video, Michigan Department of Veterans Affairs James Dunn says the home gives excellent health care to the veterans.  LAIR LAIR pants on fire!  Jim you know the home at best provides a minimum amount of healthcare, but its not good enough to be in the excellent quality bracket.

This is more than just a Union verses Non union worker debate. This is about how Michigan Taxpayers money is being spent, and to what result. It is more than just the health care workers from J2S, its about the entire administration of the home from the top down. It is about You Jim Dunn, it is about the board of managers, it is about veterans not having a voice in what is supposed to be their own home, and its about this administration evicting veterans who dare speak up and stand up for their rights and the rights of others.

This home should operate like any other retirement home, with the exception that its reserved for Veterans.
I can tell you this: it doesn't come close. In fact, now that you are locking the windows and doors at night, its become more like a prison than anything.  Is that what Michigan taxpayers are paying for?

Excellent health care? When the guys are not even informed of their medical appointments at the VA clinic, which is right next door to the home? Or they are told 2 days after the appointment that they had one. Is that your idea of excellent health care?

How about the reports of drugging up the veterans so they can't "make waves" or anything because staff doesn't want to have to deal with them? Great health care you say? How come Mac and I had to go to Spectrum health to get our post operative Physical therapy, when the home has a physical therapy room where the staff there told us they could have given us our needed therapy? Mac for his Heart, and me for my replaced knee.

This is more than just the Union care givers Verses the J2S care givers.. This is about the lack of leadership, poor administration, lack of respect being given to veterans by the administration, wasteful spending of Michigan tax dollars, and last, the out right theft, and fraud, imposed on the veterans by the Administration.

Jim Dunn, you need to stop lying about the REAL conditions at the Veterans home.

What abuse, This abuse: A day in the life of A Vet at GRH4V.

I am a veteran at the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans.  I would like to tell you about my day and the atrocities I face.

I am woken up around 6:30 in the morning.  That is assuming I am asleep because during the night, my room is frequently entered and the lights are turned on to make sure that my roommate and I are asleep.  My roommate is but the overhead lights turned on wakes me up.  Anyways, at 6:30 in the morning, I am asked for the Depends I wear.  Rather than give me a clean pair, I am told to wait and be patient and someone would be around to assist me in getting dressed.  It is now 9:30 in the morning and I am forced the indignation of being naked.  I am still waiting for my meds which should have came at 8:00 am.  By this time, I have buzzed the nursing station several times.  I require an oxygen treatment twice a day.  That is suppose to happen at 8:00 am and when I go to bed.  I have endured trouble breathing during these hours in the morning and have called for help.  Nobody comes......Nobody comes.  I got yelled at the other day when I managed to crawl on the floor to get my Depends and clothes.  Here I am, a 100% service connected disabled veteran and I have been forced to crawl on the floor to get my clothes.  Such indignation.

I recently was hospitalized with pneumonia and an accelerated heart rate.  I was told to take it easy.  When I returned to the Veterans Home, they took away my electric scooter.  They said I was driving it recklessly.  I now have to use a manual wheel chair.  So much for taking it easy.  If you have ever pushed yourself in one of these, it is no easy chore.  So much for the home following doctor's orders.

I need to tell you that I have been ordered by the home to take behavior modification medicine or they will kick me out of the home.  If they would allow me to go home, that would be wonderful but Nooooo, that isn't the case.  They want to place me in a private nursing home and they want me to pay for it myself.  Isn't that nice of them.  Fortunately, I have been told by my service officer that they have to use my VA insurance.  I should tell you that my Service Officer received an e-mail from Sarah Dunne who informed him that I wasn't being kicked out of the home.  This was a trick played on me by the medical staff. 

This behavior modification medication they want me on is real special.  It gives me bad dreams.  It causes me to hallucinate.  Basically,  they want me a zombie.  They don't want me to express my rights or my anger.  Gracious, what do I have to be angry about?  We won't discuss the fact that the Social Worker assigned to me lied and got the Kent County Probate Court involved in my case, assigning me a guardian and conservator.  We won't discuss that this Court banned me from contact with my wife for 14 months at the request of my guardian.  I thank God daily that I am now able to see and talk with my wife.  We also won't discuss the fact that my guardian spent in access of $16,000 for lawyers to file for a divorce that my guardian wanted, not me.  She has the financial resources to pay for an attorney that has agreed to take my case but he is asking for a 42,500 retainer.  The guardian won't allow me to hire an attorney to get her sorry butt removed.  I guess I shouldn't be angry about that either.  I had a care conference a month or so ago.  My wife wasn't invited to it and a member of the Military was told by my guardian that he couldn't be there either.  I guess I shouldn't be angry about that either.  There is a long list of things I should not voice my anger about but I don't want to bore you with my problems.

Around 10:30 am, I am finally dressed.  It is now close to lunch time and I have to figure out how to handle a food tray and a manual wheelchair.  I haven't mastered that yet but I am getting better at it.  The food is still horrible here.  I am allergic to seafood so guess what I find on the menu for lunch.  FISH.  There is no alternate meal anymore.  I drink the milk and the dish of fruit.  Something is better than nothing.

I haven't had a shower in a week.  I am suppose to have one on Tuesday and Friday.  They won't allow me to take one by myself.  The gal that gives me a shower isn't real happy with me either.  She repeatedly fails to get the soap off me or my hair.  I have a skin condition which is irritated by this and now I have dandruff.  I guess I am not suppose to be angry about this either.

I don't know if the people around me are union or non-union.  I know that none of them are dedicated to the care of me or the other veterans around me.  I have had male nurses raise a closed fist to me.  My medical needs have been ignored by all.  They have attempted to strip my dignity and self respect every chance they get.  I was reading about all the rights that prisoners have.  The counseling.  I have to wonder why an inmate gets what I have been begging for.  But I can't get angry about that or voice my concern because I am not suppose to. 

This is quite a system the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans has.  I was supportive of the privatization in hopes that the bad care givers could be dismissed without dealing with the Union.  All I want is to be treated with the same love and care I had when I was an active member of the Navy.  I loved my country then and I still love it now.  Why doesn't this country love the veteran?